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Java Software Developer- TorontoGuidewire Software

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We're looking for skilled, critical thinking, creative, talented Software Engineers for our engineering team. Engineers who quickly understand code. People who quickly grok the structure and interconnections in a system. Engineers with intuition and analytical thinking that are borne from experience. Engineers who can visualize the big picture like a System Architect but aren't afraid to really dive into details to figure out what's going on. Engineers who can appreciate the business side of the equation and put the needs of the end-user first.We want Software Engineers with navigational intelligence. People who know how to approach a solution, which questions to ask, and what to try next. Can you tell which classes need refactoring and which classes need another unit test? Do you know when to get creative, and when to keep the code simple? Can you debug a non-deterministic unit test break? Can you write a clean API? Do you know when to test assumptions? Do you know which code structure is more maintainable? Can you tell which code not to touch because it's doing its job well?Our software is great, the snacks are ok, and the building is decent enough. What's special, though, is that we're a team passionately focused on customer success and our long term goals. Talk to people here and you'll immediately sense their enthusiasm. We write software the way we've always wanted to write it. We want smart, motivated people to help build the future for ourselves and our customers. We are proud of what we build and how we work together.At the heart of Guidewire culture are three principles:Collegiality. We work together as professional equals, with a minimum of hierarchy. We strive for good processes and realistic assumptions to keep workload sustainable. We trust people to manage their own time. We seek input without regard for title. We welcome and consider contrary opinions. We value work/life balance.Integrity. We insist on truthful relationships with customers, prospective customers, partners, investors, and each other in everything that we do.Rationality. We communicate through clear arguments. We decide carefully based on factual evidence. We like calm, systematic, thoughtful solutions. We constantly improve processes. We use the latest Agile and Lean coding techniques, including work pods, sprints, and scrums.What does a Software Engineer on the Guidewire team do?Guidewire sells three enterprise web-based software products to insurance companies that offer Property and Casualty insurance: Policy Center, Claim Center, and Billing Center. Our Toronto teams builds tools, frameworks and APIs that are then used to morph vanilla versions of Policy Center into a full-featured policy administration system capable of running various insurance carriers' lines of business, such as General Liability, Commercial Auto, Commercial Property, etc... As we grow, we'll expand our reach to other areas of the products suite and software stack. Writing this kind of software for insurance companies worldwide turns out to be surprisingly complex and difficult to get exactly right. Understanding and rising to that challenge can be a lot of fun.Guidewire's platform includes an MVC web presentation layer, a cluster-safe persistent data layer, advanced performance tools, an inter-application messaging architecture, and a lot more. Furthermore, the Toronto team develops tools for such things as parsing and transforming complex structured data, analyzing object graph differences, doing automatic code generation, reconfiguring product and data models, etc...We strongly value test-driven development, baking Quality into our products from the very start. Our test framework runs over 100K tests regularly for every branch.Software Engineers at Guidewire typically have:* A desire to work collaboratively in a small, cross-functional team, putting quality products, communication and team spirit before all else.* Interest in modern development techniques, such as TDD, scrum, pair programming, stories, kanban.* Passion for code quality that inspires writing and maintaining loads of unit tests.* Curiosity and motivation to pick up and try new technologies and programming techniques.* A desire for hands-on designing and writing code.Prior experience with most of the following is desirable, particularly the first few:* Java* Web-based applications* Test-driven development (TDD)* Web services technologies, such as SOAP, WSDL, REST, Axis, XFire, Glassfish* J2EE technologies, such as EJB, servlets, JSP, JSF, JDBC, JMS, JMX* ORM technologies, such as Hibernate, JPA, JDO, HQL, XQuery, XPath* Gosu experience would be niceSeem like a good fit?If you're excited by the same things we are, we want to hear from you today! We're continuing to grow our Development teams and we are eager to learn more about you.To see job listings and testimonials from employees about what it's like to work at Guidewire, go to http://www.guidewire.com/about_guidewire/careers

As the number one provider of enterprise software applications to the property and casualty insurance industry, we beat our competitors (Accenture, SAP, and others) 9 times out of 10. Guidewire is an award-winning company both within the insurance industry and in the software technology space. Given our success and increasing demand for our products domestically and internationally, we continue to experience double-digit revenue growth. Guidewire has offices throughout the world, including in London, Munich, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong, and the United States. Profitable Investors:Battery Ventures, Bay Partners, U.S. Venture PartnersAll Jobs:at Guidewire Software

Guidewire Software is a profitable, privately held, and VC-backed enterprise software product development company that exclusively serves the 1.5 trillion dollar property and casualty insurance industry. Our products enable companies such as GEICO, Liberty Mutual, and Amica to efficiently run their high volume core operations, including underwriting, policy administration, claims, and billing.
Our success can be directly attributed to the bright and extremely talented employees who make it all happen. If you are looking for an opportunity where your talents will not only be recognized and leveraged but also challenged, at a company that is grabbing significant market share in a 1.5 trillion dollar industry, then Guidewire is the place for you. We have an extremely low-turnover organization and 100 percent customer referenceability.